1888.] BIRDS COLLECTED IN PERAK. 273 



"This is the Sihharoh or Vpih Bidau of the Malays. It is very 

 plentiful among the bushes which fringe the river-banks, but it is 

 so shy that it is hardly ever seen, though its prolonged, loud, musical, 

 and very involved song is one of the most noticeable riverside sounds 

 in the country." 



Fara. Troglodytid^. 



Pnoepyga ptjsilla, Hodgs. 



Pnoepyga pusilla, Hume and Davison, t. c. p. 234 ; Salvad. f. c. 

 p. 226. 



" No. 95. 2 ad. Gunong Batu Putch (4300 feet). 



" Irides dark brown ; feet and legs pale brown ; bill black, whitish 

 beneath and at angle. Ground bird." 



Identical with a specimen collected in Karennee by Captain 

 "Wardlaw Ramsay. It has also occurred on Mooleyit. 



Fam. TimeliidjE. 



Brachypteryx nipalensis (Hodgs.). 



Brachypteryx nipalensis, Hume and Davison, t. c. p. 236 ; Oates, 

 t. c. p. 19. 



" No. 89. c5' ad. Gunong Batu Putch (4300 feet). 



" Irides brown ; bill black ; feet and legs ash-colour. Lives on 

 the ground in the forest." 



An adult male, rather darker than the generality of Himalayan 

 and Tenasserim specimens, though some of the latter equal it in 

 intensity of colouring. 



Phyllergates cucullatus (Temm.). 



Phyllergutes cucullatus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 440. 



" No. 112. $ ad. Gunong Batu Putch (3400 feet). 



" Irides dark brown ; hill black above, yellowish beneath ; legs 

 and feet pale brown. Also met with on Gunong Ulu Batang 

 Padang at about the same altitude." 



Gampsorhynchus saturatior, sp. n. 



"No. 101. $ ad. Gunong Batu Putch (3400 feet). 



" Irides bright yellow ; legs and feet bluish ash, with tintings of 

 flesh-colour in places ; claws flesh-colour ; soles of feet dull yellow ; 

 bill pale flesh-colour, dusky on the ridge below the nostrils. The 

 fold of skin in which the rictal bristles are inserted is very prominent, 

 and evidently when alive the bird can move the bristles as a whole 

 backwards and forwards with great freedom. 



" Length 10^ inches, expanse 12 inches. The stomach contained 

 one large hairy caterpillar and the partly digested remains of various 

 insects, and the egg of one of the Phasmidae. 



" This bird gave me a great deal of trouble, for every night and 

 early each morning a small party of them used to pass the camp, 

 sometimes on one side and sometimes on the other. They made a 

 loud shrill cry something like the cry of the Krelcah monkey, and 



